Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1887-03-23


IA haFk 81 Dorado e disonasRin&
A.iIsSs a ths Ossan wharf-
n. hark Columbia, llmber lsden Tor
a.. F,sneiscs, IL ready for 80.
=. Hiu he artiss, and bis daughter
4. p. 81 for Portland yesterday.
T.s tno Qassn Cisy u nov enR.eee
4. sowfue for the Port Madison Mn
COMPANY.
.v.in Of Eve ears of logs arrival
-, ths Shore Line yesterday from the
Psrkins camp.
Ths s.esm schooner L. J. Perry, Of
r.ao1neF, & Issdina lumber 81 the
siss son a Post mill.
r.. oaseoing Black Diamond train
1.ssved 4 little yesterday By one Of
- esrs ianping The track.
IN. 0aacaAe came in yesterday from
vvs;.s River and departed eeain IN the
,,ssrpoon with frsight for farmers along
hat stream
n. Par. Ri kelly steamer PoIitkofsky
- n poFt asv raj hours yesterday,
800 which UaVfaIn Grant and wife
s-ioTed drive about the city.
ais.ss MarRases arrived here Monday
100 from Plymouth, England, and
s..ss-dav took charge Of the nefsinR
seVartmsnt Of Grace Hospital.
ao..a of the members Of the Seattle
PA sxueot next Sunday 10 20 20 The
- rack for q practice game. The
s.~csnds have been put in exosllent con
dItion-
y.WsrdaF about noon a. the EldsF
a. ISttinq 90 hsF lines b0uDd fer up
seond a dFunksn lonoshoFeman tried 70
- ! row with the Mate, but vas speed
b. pot ashore
Thouas n. OampbsIl, Who has been
=, ~ police force fer tbs past hve or
=, r.antba. has resigned, and the
Goapeil viii all his place ct the Hsxt
regular meeting.
nanny Fletcher, late telsgrsph opera-
a., on ths Paeet Sound Telegraph
Gamnauy,s lice 81 Port Blakely, hiss 90
sspsed position with the Postal lele-
syaOh Company IN this city.
ina weather Yesterday vas WaFm and
,r-,eo Ike. Flowers are b. ginning to
hIossom In the eardena, and everything
800 10 prove that ''ths melancholy days
ssys past" and that spring n really
upon us.
Ths steamer Nellie, which has been
laying up st snohOmish, came into port
Yesterday evening. On the way devn
she toved q boom OF logs out OF the
river 70 Priests Point, which was there
taken In Tow BY the Aoaul.
A private letter from Q gentleman In
Vancouver, b. O., dated March 20.h,
ssTs, sOIine 10 blockade Of she Cana
dlsn Pacific Railroad since February
pa. I will be unable TO get away from
bere I'LL the 18th instant. The nrst
mali came In today, and that consisted
OF only few letters, which had crossed
tbs Rockies on q dog cart. A through
nail is expected Tuesday"
Yesterday morning We publi bed an
account Of the organic ation OF the
Puget Sound Improvement Company,
the objects Of which are 20 acquire and
improve real estate. IL seems the com
pahy means bnsiness, for yesterday u
purchased two lots on the corner OF
second and Oolambia streets, from John
Leary, ESQ paying him therefor xzI,-
900 gold coin. Some years ago MT.
LeaEy bought this property from Gov.
W. o. Squire for ttoco.
The Government Signal Service be-
tween Port Angeles and Tasooah has
been discontinued on aoooant OF the
lack Of an appropriation By the last
Congress. The line Owned and oper-
Ated BY the Government in this service
is sixty miles long and the cable con
Meeting sha mainland with TAtoosh
Island Was laid at a considerable az
pense. Shipping interests Of ,he 90 90
will greatly uniss the regular service
rendered by the force hsretofoFe en-
ployed on this line.
Mr.. susbeF, one Of the contractors on
The trestle work between Mil street and
Smiths Cove (throagh Railroad avenue)
fer the Seattle. Lake shore n Eastern
Company, when asked how pile driving
was progressing, said: "Tne boys have
Two or three drivers 90 work at she
Cove, bat have net been down there
since they started 10, so cannot tell
you how the work progresses. l am
here waiting for my new driver 10 DO
nHaUONNtRMa
for work In about I've weeks, and then
IN show y0u how TO drive piles"
Uncle Henry Van ASSET, one Of the
pisneer settlers Of King County. who
new resides In the beautiful Heed River
Valley, Of Oregon, dropped Ia upon his
many old Seattle friends and aoquatn
sanoos last evening, locking a. hale and
iovial as ever. He comes here on sum
mons from his two daughters at Kent,
both Of whom are sick. and wrote that
they wanted 30 see their Papa" While
here Mr.. Van ASSET will look after some
imp0Faant business matters which are
claiming bis attention. He still owns
bic original donation claim on the Do
vanish River, one Of the hrst, II not
the hnest claim taken In King County.
Among the nelghboFs Of Uncle Henry,
In The Hood River VALLEY, are Hon. Ezra
L. Smith and family. Mr.. Smith will
BE- remembered as Secretary OF the Ter
Eilory from 1868 to 1870. BE was after
wards q member Of the Territorial Leg
stature, and q member Of the Olympia
banking Arm Of Barnes. Smith 4 Avery.
Hinca moving 70 Oreaon. Mr.. smith has
been Register Of the Land Once at the
Dalles. bat be came under the bead OF
an cohesive partisan" and retired 90
his beautiful farm seen after Mr.. Olsve
lGnd'a accession - the Presidential
chair. he has iast returned from the
Eastern States. where be vent 10 settle
up an estate Of his uncle, whe left him
several thousand dollars. Mr.. Van As
sci. reports Mr.. Smith and his family 10
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